Have you ever gotten a pet without doing all the research?

**Miss Z** · 08-21-2006, 05:49 AM

I've always researched prospective pets. My mum and dad wouldn't consider getting me a pet until I knew something about that pet, so I spent my pocketmoney on books about them. It's always stuck from then on.

**BitsyNaceyDog** · 08-21-2006, 07:29 AM

Yes, Wyatt. I got a call from my mom one evening telling me that a guy she knows was taking his PD to the pound. The pound cannot adopt out PDs and Wyatt would have been PTS right away. I went to the guys house the minute my mom told me about him and I got Wyatt. Wyatt had been living in a cage that he could barely move in and he was eating crappy walmart guinea pig food. I called Justin as I was driving home with Wyatt to tell him that we had a new pet and I needed him to get a cage ready for him. Justin simply said "ok, which cage". After I got him home I did research.

I didn't know much about the snakes, tortoises, or iguana before we got them either. They too were rescues. Justin did know a great deal about each of them before we got them though. Justin has been reading about snakes practically since he has been old enough to read.

**zoey** · 08-21-2006, 07:51 AM

I've never adopted one from a shelter without research.
But I've adopted strays, without.
Even when you do research, you can still sometimes find things out about your particular animal, afterwards. For example, if it is a mutt, you might discover a breed they have in them, that might have some health or behavioral issues you didn't know about. So you have to be willing to bend, but then nothing about life/animals is cut and dry. Animals have taught me so much!!

**Suki Wingy** · 08-21-2006, 12:01 PM

yes, when I was 5 years old I got Tigger without knowing what species she was even! But my mom had cared for many different reptiles before so she knew to feed her/him crickets.

**GreyhoundGirl** · 08-21-2006, 12:16 PM

If you are counting fish, yes.

Other than that I did not research Greys/whippets.

I had no idea I would ever get one. I researched for a beagle ( before pheobe died

), english springer spaniel, bernese, border collie and about a million other breeds that I would have liked to have. I did thousands of reaserch of dogs, though. Just not greys in particular. She just sort of found me one day. ( best day of my life. )

Of course, now I would never have any breed other than a grey, so in the futur, I will have reaserched the breed.